Results for "Saxophone Quartet Music"

Graeme Wilson

Graeme Wilson is a saxophonist whose playing features on over 30 albums including releases by his own Quartet, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, ACV, Ushaw Ensemble and Bill Wells. His writing for ensembles large and small, including six jazz works for John Warren’s Voice of the North Jazz Orchestra, has been performed at venues such as Sage, Gateshead and Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden. Recent work includes duo releases A Cast of Thousands with Raymond MacDonald and Shoes for Losers with Andy Champion; an album of songs based on Italo Calvino stories for new group Monsterosa featuring vocalist Rebecca Hollweg; and  a score commissioned by Hexham Jazz Festival for the silent film Die Bergkatze

Saxophone Quartet Music

By Radam Schwartz

Label: Arabesque Jazz
Released: 2024
Track listing: Let’s Hear It For The Boy; Sway in Rincóin; The Ancients; Hands/With These Hands; Validation; As Long As You’re Remembered (You’re Still Alive); Many Seasons Wise One; My Ship.

Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music

by Richard J Salvucci
August 25, 2024

A listener who remembers when saxophone quartets were a novelty--and a controversial one at that--is probably wondering how much the Cost-of-Living Adjustment will be for Social Security in 2025. Yes, the esteemed World Saxophone Quartet kicked up as much a critical fuss in the late 1970s as Ornette Coleman did in the 1950s. Not as “In ...